Description
The Pet Care Assistant works with the veterinary medical team to provide and prepare for the best medical care of pets.
-Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
-Prepare the treatment room for examination of pets and all necessary medical item and supplies (e.g. vaccinations, fecal loops, slides, etc.) for the veterinarian and/or veterinary technician. Set up fecals, smears, and skin scrapings as allowed by state rules and regulations.
-Serve as support to the Client Services Coordinator, Veterinary Assistant and Veterinary Technician.
-Hold or restrain pets during examination, treatment, or inoculation.
-Prepare routine in-house laboratory tests (e.g. canine heartworm, feline leukemia, FIV, and canine parvovirus)as allowed by state rules and regulations.
-Monitor the comfort of hospitalized patients. Ensure the comfort of hospitalized patients by "walking", exercising, feeding, and cleaning cages and pet (when approved by the veterinarian or veterinary technician).
-Bathe and dip pets when necessary to treat dermatological conditions(when advised by veterinarian or veterinary technician.
-Clean the surgical suite and instruments.
-Ensure cleanliness of the hospital including but not limited to housekeeping such as laundry, dishes, mopping, cage cleaning, trash collection and removal and instrument cleaning as outlined by hospital protocols
-Other job duties as assigned.
Special Working Conditions
-Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
-Ability to be confident around pets (i.e., dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, etc.)
-Client needs and work volume may require more than 40 hours per week to complete essential duties of this job. This position requires special hours including working weekends and evenings.
-Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.
-The noise level in the work environment is moderately high.
-Requires sufficient ambulatory skills in order to perform duties while at hospital.
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